Viafarini

29/05/2026

Highlight of the Archive

Will Bradley, Charles Esche (ed.), Art and Social Change - A Critical reader, Tate Gallery, 2008

The relationship between art and social and political change is not only a highly topical area of current debate, it is also fundamental to the history of modern art. This volume gathers together for the first time the essential texts that have defined this area since the late nineteenth century. Using primary sources, case studies, and new commissions, Art and Social Change provides an overview of the historical development of art with ideas of social and political change, from utopian imaginings to active engagement. Incorporating artists� writings and public statements, as well as critical and theoretical texts, the volume also highlights developments outside established Western art history.

27/05/2026

Introducing VIR Researcher

Yohsuke Ishizuka

Images from the publication "We Are Islands" (2025), edited by Yohsuke Ishizuka


This publication is the result of his ongoing research on artists and migration in Germany and beyond.

Instagram account of the project: .project

Special thanks to
Eve Queiróz
Raisan Hameed

25/05/2026

Introducing VIR Artist

Oxana Tregubova

Natura morta con vaso blu, 2026
olio, acrilico e inchiostro su compensato, 25 x 34,3 cm

22/05/2026

Highlights from the Archive

M. Carter, B. Eglison, "Fantasies of Virtual Reality - Untangling Fiction, Fact and Threat", 2024

The fantasies that underpin common perceptions of Virtual Reality—and what we need to know about VR's potential risks as well as its opportunities.
Virtual reality is the next new frontier for Silicon Valley. Mark Zuckerberg, who has overseen Meta's investment of billions into VR, pitches it as the next dominant computing paradigm. More than just a gaming technology, VR is top of mind for academics, tech reportage, and industry evangelists who all see the potential for VR to revolutionize fields such as education and health, as well as the way we work and communicate. But will VR achieve all this? In Fantasies of Virtual Reality, Marcus Carter and Ben Egliston strip bare the tech industry's vision of a future dominated by immersive VR experiences, challenging the utopian promises of this technology's potential.
Carter and Egliston offer a critical account of VR in a variety of contexts, from gaming to human resources to policing and the military. They argue that while VR does hold significant potential, the overhyped expectations surrounding it, from achieving true empathetic understanding to transforming traditional education and office work, are often overstated and fraught with issues of privacy, control, and exclusion. What's more, there is nothing truly virtual about virtual reality: VR is deeply entrenched in the material world, driven by tangible technological, economic, and social logics.

21/05/2026

20/05/2026

Introducing VIR Artist

Juanjo Barreda Aznar

NADA series, 2023-ongoing
NADA.3242X, NADA.3242E3
photography + digital treatment Fuji Flex C-print, 90 x 120 cm
art

18/05/2026

Introducing VIR Artist

Mirella Jaworska

the kissa, 2025
Olio su tela, 22 x 28,5 cm

15/05/2026

Highlights from the Archive

Christina Braun, Thomas Hirschhorn - A new political understanding of Art?, Dartmouth College Press, 2018

Thomas Hirschhorn, a leading installation artist whose work is owned and exhibited by modern art museums throughout Europe and the United States, is known for compelling, often site-specific and interactive environments tackling issues of critical theory, global politics, and consumerism. His work initially engages the viewer through sheer superabundance. Combining found images and texts, bound up in handcrafted constructions of cardboard, foil, and packing tape, the artworks reflect the intellectual scavenging and sensory overload that characterize our own attempts to grapple with the excess of information in daily life. Christina Braun, the first to compile and systematically analyze the extensive source material on this artist’s theoretical principles, sheds light on the complicated yet constitutive relations between Hirschhorn’s work and theory. Her study, now translated into English, makes a major contribution to the study of contemporary art.